International Mobility and Educational Desire Chinese Foreign Talent
This book examines the Singapore government’s controversial practice of recruiting students from China and granting them full scholarships on the condition of a service “bond”. It offers detailed ethnographic accounts of the Chinese “foreign talent” stude
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INTERNATIONAL MOBILITY AND EDUCATIONAL DESIRE Chinese Foreign Talent Students in Singapore
Peidong Yang
Anthropological Studies of Education
Series Editor Amy Stambach University of Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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Aims of the Series This series examines the political, ideological, and power-laden dimensions of education from an anthropological perspective. Books in this series look at how society is defined in relation to education. It will delve into the kinds of communities that are imagined through educational policies, curricula, institutions, and programming. Many books in the series will use ethnography to capture diverse educational positions and experiences. The series uses concepts such as social practice, myth-making, political organization, and economic exchange, to address substantive issues pertaining to education in the moment and over time.
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Peidong Yang
International Mobility and Educational Desire Chinese Foreign Talent Students in Singapore
Peidong Yang Nanyang Technological University Singapore
Anthropological Studies of Education ISBN 978-1-137-59142-5 ISBN 978-1-137-59143-2 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-59143-2
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This book is based on parts of my doctoral thesis, written at the University of Oxford, 2010–14. I am deeply grateful to my teachers at Oxford, David Mills, Xiang Biao, and Amy Stambach, not only for their sympathy and guidance at various stages of the doctorate, but also for their continuing support beyond its completion. Amy has been instrumental in helping me get this work published, and I feel privile
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